It is always a special pleasure when young researchers achieve success using our turnkey observatories. Over the years, we have built several observatories for schools and student research centers that regularly win awards.
Anna Maria Weiß from Einstein-Gymnasium won the national “Jugend forscht” competition in the field of geosciences and space sciences using the turnkey observatory installed in 2017. In her project, she demonstrated that the object TOI1147b is an exoplanet orbiting its parent star in a highly elliptical orbit. She discovered that it has a mass and size similar to Jupiter but exhibits a significantly higher surface temperature.
We warmly congratulate the winner and the school administration on this achievement!
With the combination of a PlaneWave CDK17 astrograph, a TEC APO 140 f/7 on an equatorial GM 4000 HPS mount in a 3.2 m slit-dome, powered by a Baader OMS (Observatory Management System), a Baader turnkey observatory can be efficiently used for a wide range of astronomical applications.
